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Monday, October 26, 2009

Monday, October 26, 2009

When you see your typical bakery display filling up with disembodied plastic fingers and red corn syrup drenched eyeballs you know Halloween is nearly upon us. Of course, those cakes are trying to be gross, gory, and/or creepy.

[sing-song voice] Bo-ring!

Personally, I prefer the cakes that were going for cutesy, but didn't quite make it. You know, like this:

Bring me the head of Billy the Scarecrow!!

Don't you worry about Billy, though...

...I hear he qualified for the "bale out" program. (Hay!)

I don't think this next one was going for cute, exactly, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't going for this level of creepy, either:

Um. Wow. The monster mash just got a leeetle bit awkward.

So anyway, you can keep your rat-gnawed arms and zombie brain cakes; to me, no baked good will ever be as terrifying as this thing:

Aaaauugh!

Denise, Surlana, Matt L., & Kourtny, I will never look at fried eggs the same way again. Thanks.

I can't even begin to fathom what that last cake might be. It looks like one of those Fierie puppets from the Labyrinth...only one that's been cross-bred with a duck and has had its eyes replaced with breakfast foods.

Oh, God, I'm going to have nightmares about a egg-eyed Fierie-duck now.

WV - sesse: I cannot sesse how wreckerators come up with these damned ideas.

What IS that last one? I think I see a mouth, and maybe some eyes. Could we request a different angle for that one? Please? Ok, ok, how about just some mental soap please. I'l be having nightmares tonight.

I love the random leaf on the last one. Nice touch Wreckerator! I guess it must be a clue to what this thing is. Be careful kids, when you are out this Halloween: The Pile of Leaves Monster might get you!!!

LOL. I would actually buy that last one. It was totally disturbing, of course, but I think it looks just how the decorator wanted it to. Hmmm...noww I'm thinking of making a really scary cake for Halloween.

I WANT YOU!!! LMAO what were they going for with that cake? an Uncle Sam/Alien combo? or is he just in the moode for some lovin' ? what the heck!...poor aligod. *that makes me laugh every time i think of it.. btw.

Please tell me that last one isn't just frosting. Because it looks to me like it's just piles and piles of frosting. I love frosting as much as (and maybe more than) the next person, but my pancreas is quivering in fear looking at that thing.

I've been staring at that last cake for at least the last five minutes trying in vain to figure out even a minute possibility of what it could be but all I've got is Leaf Monster. Maybe it's supposed to be a Leaf Monster...I don't know. All I know is that I would never buy cake #1 as cutting into the head of anything, scarecrow or not, is disturbing.

The green monster impressed me, but that last cake scared me. How could someone make that? When I see thongs like that, even if I don't want to, I start to believe in monsters, or something like that. (Note: I like Halloween.) His eyes are madly scaring. eheheh

After the first shock, that last cake makes me laugh. Is this hysteria? \0/

I will now leave my opinion on each pic because you know I have no life:

1. Besides being a yellow pumpkin scarecrow hybrid theres almost nothing wrong with this guy. It's just the genius Wreckie wanted everything perfect so he meade something to center the face on! In BLACK icing, and then to add to the insult the wreckie forgot to take it off because haveing blacklines going across the face is SO much worse than the eyes being off center.

2. Why this dead scarcrow is simply Magnificent! But why in the world is he wearing that bright orange beret? Oh it's a pumpkin? But aren't pumpkins round? Oh it's the flat because you dropped the pumpkin from the roof of the barn onto his head. THen you took the body and stuffed in a hay bale to hide it. Uh well I uh got to go now *shuffles nervously to the next pic.*

3. *relieved to be away from the scarcrow murder* Well this is a....disturbing cake. What is this thing. I want you.... *flips over card* To make a frog cake. *stares at cake looking for the resemblence between fraken frog and a real frog* The resemblance: They are both green. Looks at the weird fingers, and weird sprinkle choice: You know I think you can sue for this....or at least get you money back for them barfing on it.

4. *rubbing the awfulness from my eyes* I hope this is a nice normal wreck, maybe a mispelling or tw- FOR THE LOVE OF ALL WRECKED CAKES WHAT IS THAT!. Suddenly the terrible truth dawns on her, how can anbody be this color/iceing blind. I think (looks in horror at the color catrastrophe) that they were trying to make I don't know a group of leaves but obviously it turn out right so the manager in a vain attempt to save the wasted icing searches around, the only icing left is white and yellow ( the brain dead employee has used all the decent fall colors on the...thing) so he quickly draws big white eyes and yellow iris (because you no some monsters have yellow eyes) than finds the thing lacks a mouth. He quickly finds two stale surger cookies they were going to throw out, fills it with whit icing for the mouth, hlaway through to the managers horror he runs out of white icing, he quickly grabs the yellow and does the rest of the beak/mouth with that color. Than he puts on the display proud of his quick thinking. He then sacks the poor wreckie.

Thank you thank you. This is my impression of what happened to each and every cake *bows*

xDDThe third one immediately made me think of that Beatles song..."I Want You/She's So Heavy." And subsequently that scene in Across the Universe.I can see it now--a giant green monster reaching out from the picture to grab you AND EAT YOUR BRAINS!

The worst thing about the green monster cake is that it was made at a chain grocery store. We saw the first one and took the picture. A week later, in another location, we saw it again. Cincinnatians, beware! ~Molly

I have to say that the hay bale with the scarecrow in it doesn't look like a wreck to me. I think it's cute - clever concept. It looks homemade, too, and not professionally done. I think whoever did it did a very nice job!

Hahahaha I recognize the 'alien' thing one! It was in a grocery store like 5 minutes from my house! I was literally cursing out loud that my camera was dead because I wanted to take a pic n send it here! So good job to whoever did!

I also took a picture of the green alien..."thing" in Indiana! I laughed when I saw the picture here and realized it was not just a one-time thing...this is actually a kit! What were they thinking? ~Sandy

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